"An Illini book from the University of Illinois Press"--Page 4 of cover.

Descrizione:

x, 257 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Contenuti:

1. The context: Jesse Jackson's candidacy in political-social perspective: a contextual analysis / Lucius J. Barker --
The emergent mobilization of the Black community in the Jackson campaign for president / Ronald W. Walters --
2. The constituents: Jesse Jackson's campaign: constituency attitudes and political outcomes / William Crotty --
Through the prism of Afro-American culture: an interpretation of the Jackson campaign style / Joseph P. McCormick II and Robert C. Smith --
The Jackson campaign in the Hispanic community: problems and prospects for a Black-brown coalition / Armando Gutierrez --
3. The voters: A view from the bottom: a descriptive analysis of the Jackson platform efforts / Curtina Moreland-Young --
The "naive" and the "unwashed": the challenge of the Jackson campaign at the Democratic convention / Robert G. Newby --
5. The impact: Traditional Democratic Party politics in Maryland and the 1984 Jackson presidential campaign: a case study / Alvin Thornton and Fred Hutchinson --
Did Jesse Jackson cause a white backlash against the Democrats?: a look at the 1984 presidential election / John Zipp --
The coalition at the end of the rainbow?: the 1984 Jackson campaign / Lorenzo Morris and Linda F. Williams.